Day 1 -Review of Fundamentals

1.       Introductions

2.       The need for statistics

3.       Review of probability

4.       Applications of probability

5.       Exercise: Bayes Theorem for Facies Identification

6.       Distribution functions

7.       Exercise: Properties of Lognormal Distributions

8.       Petrophysical properties from statistics

9.       Mixed distributions

10.    Exercise: Partitioning Populations

Day 2 - Elements of Sampling

1.       Review of previous day

2.       Estimators and their assessment

3.       Exercise: Properties of Samples

4.       Heterogeneity measures

5.       Bivariate analysis

6.       Exercise: Generating Bivariate Distributions

7.       Covariance and related measures

8.       Regression

9.       Exercise: The Bias in Permeability-Porosity Plots

Day 3 - Statistical Applications

1.       Review of previous day

2.       Analysis of Spatial Relations

3.       Exercise: Calculating Autocorrelation Measures

4.       Modeling Geologic Media

5.       Exercise: Using the Kriging Interpolator

6.       Conditional simulation techniques

7.       Use of Statistics in Reservoir Modeling

8.       Course summary